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Marco Rubio's new mission: Win back the Republican Party’s base
The Hill ^ | Monday August 5, 2013

Posted on 08/05/2013 7:13:52 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Sen. Marco Rubio's immigration push might have hurt his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination, Republican lawmakers say. [WATCH VIDEO]

While it’s still a long way until 2016, a number of GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate say Rubio (R-Fla.) will have to repair his standing with the conservative base if he hopes to be his party's next candidate for president.

“There's terrible disappointment with Marco Rubio specifically,” says Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), an opponent of the Senate immigration bill that Rubio helped write and pass. “I don't think it's going to help him anywhere.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; gope; immigration; marcorubio; rubio
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To: driftdiver

Basically he’s saying “I can be like McCain and screw the people over and get them to vote for me again”.


21 posted on 08/05/2013 7:24:50 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Bigtigermike

sorry, he will have no 2nd chance with me. Its not the position that he took that annoyed me, its his dishonesty. He already shown himself be ignorant, gullible and easily fooled by democrats as well. He did not learn from Reagan’s mistake


22 posted on 08/05/2013 7:25:07 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Bigtigermike

Its hard to face the truth but the truth is that over 90 percent of the elected officials in the GOP including many lauded as “Tea Party Conservatives” are just business as usual hack politicians.

A total housecleaning is required with primary challengers and third party options if RINO’s win primaries.

RINO’s do the same things as the Dems at a slower rate of speed.

Only real conservatives will take us in a new direction that’s different from this constant moving to the left that we get from Obama and Oboehner.


23 posted on 08/05/2013 7:27:24 PM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: Bigtigermike

McCain Concedes Immigration Reform Bill Won’t Gain GOP ‘A Single Hispanic Voter’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3049831/posts


24 posted on 08/05/2013 7:27:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Good luck with that.....


25 posted on 08/05/2013 7:28:28 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Bigtigermike

As a side note, PROPS to Chaffetz for being on the right side of this one. He should unseat Hatch.


27 posted on 08/05/2013 7:29:25 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: cripplecreek

Marco admits there are over 10 million illegals he wants to allow to work legally on the US. On average, that is 200,000 per state. Somebody in Florida needs to ask Marco if he thinks 200,000 more job-seekers is a good thing or a bad thing for Florida’s currently unemployed.


28 posted on 08/05/2013 7:30:17 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Bigtigermike

I caught a glimpse of Rubio as I was passing by the TV earlier tonight. With that cheesy, sleazy grin, he’s better suited for used car sales.

I want him out of my Congress.


29 posted on 08/05/2013 7:30:44 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Bitter clinger & creepy-ass cracker)
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To: PhiloBedo

Change his name to Fredo.

Then take him fishing.


30 posted on 08/05/2013 7:30:50 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Bigtigermike

fool me once....


31 posted on 08/05/2013 7:31:20 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Bigtigermike

To Rubio-

My Lovin’ (you’re Never Gonna Get It) by En Vogue

No, you’re never gonna get it (Ow!)
Never ever gonna get it (No, not this time)
No, you’re never gonna get it (My love)
Never ever gonna get it
(repeat)
I remember how it used to be
You never was this nice, you can’t fool me
Now you talkin’ like you made a change
The more you talk, the more things sound the same
What makes you think you can just walk back into her life
Without a good fight? Oh...
I just sit back and watch you make a fool of yourself
Cuz you’re just wasting your time, oh...
CHORUS
No, you’re never gonna get it (Not this time)
Never ever gonna get it (My lovin’)
No, you’re never gonna get it (Had your chance to make a change)
Never ever gonna get it
(repeat)
Now you promise me the moon and stars
Save your breath, you won’t get very far
Gave you many chances to make change
The only thing you changed was love to hate
It doesn’t matter what you do or what you say
She doesn’t love you, no way
Maybe next time you’ll give your woman a little respect
So you won’t be hearing her say, “No way”
CHORUS
Doesn’t matter what you do or what you say
She don’t love you, no way
Maybe next time you’ll give your woman a little respect
So you won’t be hearing her say, “No way”
[And now it’s time for a breakdown...]
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it
Never gonna get it (whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa)
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it
Never gonna get it, never get it
No, you’re never gonna get it (Sweet lovin’)
Never ever gonna get it (Sweet lovin’)
No, you’re never gonna get it (My lovin’)
Never ever gonna get it (My lovin’)
No, you’re never gonna get it (Sweet lovin’)
Never ever gonna get it (My lovin’)
No, you’re never gonna get it (Sweet lovin’)
Never ever gonna get it (My lovin’)...


32 posted on 08/05/2013 7:32:16 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Bigtigermike

Nevah happen GI!!


33 posted on 08/05/2013 7:32:36 PM PDT by House Atreides ( D)
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To: Bigtigermike

Marco isn’t through losing the conservative base. The amnesty scam isn’t over.


34 posted on 08/05/2013 7:33:00 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Bigtigermike

It happens, for some reason, I read him like a book from the beginning. Too richly charasmatic and charming to not prove his bono fidis. Like too much chocolate even for a chocolate lover.

Yes, I was delighted to see him replace the silver haired weirdo, who rather recently turned democrat after being kicked to the curb by all
Republicans. But that’s it for the Rube.


35 posted on 08/05/2013 7:33:20 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Dems are swayed by pretty speeches, not us. Action talks, BS walks.
36 posted on 08/05/2013 7:34:44 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Rubio needs to back off, and abandon his pro-Immigration stand.

And if he [supposedly] did that? That would mean what? Jeez, he's made it clear he'll say what he thinks you want to hear and screw the truth...and you.

There is absolutely NOTHING that man could do to convince me he believes anything other than what he has already shown us. He has already told us the truth. Anything else is a lie. Told by a liar. A liar that has every intention of selling out his country and his fellow citizens. There is a word for a person like that. And it applies here.

37 posted on 08/05/2013 7:35:52 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Bigtigermike

He needs to stick with the Whigs.


38 posted on 08/05/2013 7:36:52 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Rubio really bugs me. He does something funny with his mouth when he speaks. Mark Levin had him on tonight and I changed the station. He thinks he can fool people. He’s wrong.


39 posted on 08/05/2013 7:37:01 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Bigtigermike

You want a leader with Rubio’s vision.... NOT.


40 posted on 08/05/2013 7:37:27 PM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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